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ID: 7010428
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010428
Record Type:
administrative
Burnley (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 48 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.8000
decimal degrees
Long: 002 14 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.2333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at junction of Rivers Burns & Calder; grew rapidly at end of 18th cen. with development of textile industry; today is center for light industry; 17th-cen. noted for Towneley Hall, now an art gallery & museum.
Names:
Burnley
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
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Europe
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
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England
(country) (
P
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Lancashire
(county) (
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Burnley
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
flourished from 18th cen.
town (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
sporting center (
C
)
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site of Football Ground arena
Sources and Contributors:
Burnley..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 663
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 663
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2591335
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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